Napolitano talks homegrown terrorism

Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano said Sunday that although anti-terrorism efforts have made Americans safer, the country still faces serious threats from both foreign and homegrown terrorists.

“I believe we are safer. I believe, however, that there is no 100 percent guarantee,” Napolitano said in a panel discussion with former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on CNN’s "State of the Union."
"We have reduced the risk, but we haven’t eliminated the risk,” Chertoff said.Napolitano and Chertoff also discussed how the United States is dealing with domestic terrorists, like the Somali-Americans who traveled to Mogadishu in 2008.“It’s more dispersed. With a big conspiracy, you have opportunities to intercept, to hear about or learn about ahead of time,” Napolitano said. “When you have small groups, that’s much more difficult.”“We’re talking about is an ever-evolving threat that has not kept the United States immune, and that means the Department of Homeland Security itself has had to evolve,” she continued.The remarks come on the heels of a report by former members of the 9/11 Commission that says the United States was slow to put systems in place to deal with the threat of homegrown terrorism. POLITICO